Logo
Quote by George Eliot
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. -

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot

Other quotes by George Eliot

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive. – George Eliot

Category:
Science
Author
George Eliot
Read Quote

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot

Category:
Failure
Author
George Eliot
Read Quote

No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. – George Eliot

Category:
Reverence
Author
George Eliot
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Beauty
category

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring. – Tila Tequila

Category:
Beauty

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasnt doing. – Theodore Bikel

Category:
Beauty

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. – Edward F. Halifax

Category:
Beauty

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Beauty

Random Quotes

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations. – Karlie Kloss

Category:
Dreams

Religion is the solid basis of good morals therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God. – Gouverneur Morris

Category:
Education

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. – Denis Waitley

Category:
Experience

And it is because a series of elements in Spanish life which operate today the same way as they did in the times of Blanco White made obvious my relationship with him, based on a similarity in Spains condition. – Juan Goytisolo

Category:
relationship